Posts Tagged ‘shadow’

Henry contemplating a thirst

  
painterly henry, originally uploaded by Richard Adams.
I like this because of the painterliness. I also like it becasue it captured a moment of real life. In classic children’s portraiture so much is staged. Try a quick search on Google and you will see that primarily people like to romanticise the child portrait. I like this because [...]

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sunflowers

sunflowers, originally uploaded by Richard Adams.
I simply loved the colours here. In terms of treatment I tried to do two things. One was to make the composition more than just standard symmetry and the other thing was to make the flowers bright against the background. In the end after a few tries I [...]

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Self Portrait

Self Portrait, originally uploaded by Richard Adams.

This is a self portrait I took in my bathroom. In common with many people we have recessed spotlights in there. I noticed that standing under one while the next one’s bulb had gone gave me this dramatic directional lighting.

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